Horrible Youtube lag - am I missing something? (1 Viewer)

so I've been watching a lot of Youtube lately. it seems like I get the spinning wheel of lag way too often.

I have a fairly new macbook pro 2013, plenty of ram 4GB, and I don't think I should be getting lag to this extent.

I use safari and chrome, clear my cache regularly, I read about this thing where you go into the chrome extensions and disable multiple versions of shockwave flash that are running at the same time and only allow one to operate.

Still problems. Am I the only one? what problems have you had and how did you fix them?

It's your ISP not your computer.

Really? Just a blanket statement? Can I call TELUS and ask them to fix my YouTube?What is the problem, exactly?

Does Vimeo or DailyMotion work?

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/netflix-performance-on-verizon-and-comcast-has-been-dropping-for-months/

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/why-youtube-buffers-the-secret-deals-that-make-and-break-online-video/

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-ars-readers-cope-with-bad-netflix-and-youtube-performance/